JobiWanUK Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 On 4/3/2025 at 9:51 PM, showler said: That's what it does. If you search for "witcher" from a Skyrim SE page you get content from Skyrim SE (plus a list of games at the top if you are on "all content"). If you've set "mods" as your default search, you get Skyrim SE mods containing the word "witcher". If you are set to "all content" then you get six games related to "witcher", a bunch of Skyrim SE mods related to "witcher", some Skyrim SE Collections related to "witcher", some Skyrim SE images related to "witcher" and some members related to "witcher". If you're not getting that then your page is broken and you should be investigating why it's broken. Expand My default is set to mods but a simple one keyword search from the Skyrim SE page shows me all mods for all games. Not my job to investigate why it's broken, is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpesangrea Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 On 4/3/2025 at 10:09 PM, JobiWanUK said: Maybe it 'should' but it doesn't. I was just on the Skyrim SE page, hit 'jester' in the search and I got results for all games. Of course I selected the game from the left to filter it, but that's an extra step that wasn't there before the 'improvements' to search. Expand Hit ctrl+f5 to do a hard refresh of the tab you are trying to search from, then check to make sure the "mods" button is the one highlighted when you start typing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NexBeth Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 On 4/3/2025 at 9:26 PM, carpesangrea said: I think a lot of people would be far less annoyed at the new search window if your current game button was the default. Being bombarded with irrelevant information feels awful. Expand Nope. It is the default. But people remain annoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpesangrea Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 On 4/3/2025 at 10:16 PM, NexBeth said: Nope. It is the default. But people remain annoyed. Expand It's because the "all" tab is the default. You need to go to the search preferences to change it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozoak Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 (did someone go through with a broom and delete pages and pages of posts? I'm sure the page count hasn't changed since I looked at this last night, and yet I just had to read several new pages of posts. Not that it matters, I suppose.) 1. Information Density *across the board* Assume visitors to the site are more intelligent, not less. We can handle complex pages with more information, not fewer. Big bright & shiny doesn't automatically equate to better, unless you're trying to distract a toddler or a magpie. If I'm on a 1080p display and go to a games page I can see precisely 2 mods - the top trending ones - without having to scroll. Scroll a little and I can see another 4 trending mods, but I have to scroll down an entire page height before I can read the full description of just the first 4 'New' mods. Each page-dn reveals, in full, just another 4 mods. Even if there was a mods section anchor link near the top of the page, starting the mods section you can see just 4 full mods and another 4 with 3/4 of the information presented. At 2560x1440 I get to see the top-6 trending mods (lucky me) and still have to scroll down a full page to get the first 4 + 3/4's of the next 4. At either resolution the absolute best appears to be 8 fully visible on screen at once. If I had a 4k display would I be blessed with being able to see 8 + 3/4s of another 4? ooo However as responses have indicated this isn't going to change back. The dumbing down of information is an incredibly disappointing trend in Modern UI design, even worse considering our displays have only increased in size. 2. Search used to be faster That's it, it's not complicated. Search was faster. I'll grant that full search is likely the same speed, except we're seeing the results render in rather than waiting for a results page to load, but there is a human perception difference between the two things; waiting for a results page to load is a single wait experience: we're waiting for a page watching a page render in information to placeholder cells is a wait experience multiplied by the number of things we see loading: we're waiting for 5-10 objects to load Quick Search is not as fast. Again, it's an observation. Now, if some metric shows that data is actually loading faster but that users perceive it as slower, that should inform a UX team that something is wrong. 3. Quick Search obfuscates the page In the past I would use quick search while reading a mods description. It's reasonably common for an author to put details into their mods for other mods they use but which are not hard requirements for their mod. Comments along the lines of "Other mods used you see in my screenshots are ...", or "This mod is a variant of a great mod by blah blah author..." I would often use the quick search function to find those mods. And those three are before going into any of the general observations around issues with the new site (such as the varying height of the top-level menu drop-down across the available top-level menu options). 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven1417 Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 (edited) Interesting to see the mods are more than happy to respond to people they think they can browbeat but refuse to answer any real questions. Almost as if they have no or very little confidence in being able to justify their decisions because they know this has been an absolute mess and there's no way to spin it in a positive light Here's the questions again just in case but at this rate I'm getting the feeling there is no one working with this team that has the technical knowledge to genuinely answer or they don't want to answer because they know that any remotely honest answers will be self-incriminating in the sense they'll have to acknowledge they've messed this whole thing up. 1. Why make a major overhaul to a site without keeping a functioning backup of the original? (If this isn't the case then Nexus staff are lying/misleading users about why restoring the old site or at least old look isn't possible.) 2. Why push ahead with a major overhaul if the team working on it were not able to ensure that accessibility and features would at the very least be relatively on par with the previous site when going live? To add, how is the site now WCAG compliant yet seeing previously unreported accessibility issues that didn't occur with the old site? 3. Some staff have mentioned "other looks" that might be available down the track while also saying the old look will never return. Please explain why there would be time and resources put towards making whole new looks for the site but no effort to recreate the one that users actually want? 4. Since the feedback has been overwhelmingly negative indicating that most Nexus users were for one reason or another unaware of the impending changes, including heavy/powers users and those with accessibility requirements, will Nexus commit to far more transparent and better advertised polling on here, Reddit and other social media channels to see if this new site is favoured by users or not or has Nexus made the decision that all user feedback regardless of how objective is ultimately irrelevant and will be ignored if it isn't in favour of these changes? Edited April 3 by Raven1417 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showler Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 On 4/3/2025 at 10:10 PM, JobiWanUK said: Not my job to investigate why it's broken, is it? Expand Depends. First thing that needs to be worked out is whether it's broken because of something on their end or something on your end. If the page is broken because of an extension you have installed then they can't actually investigate it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozoak Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 On 4/3/2025 at 10:59 PM, showler said: Depends. First thing that needs to be worked out is whether it's broken because of something on their end or something on your end. If the page is broken because of an extension you have installed then they can't actually investigate it for you. Expand You might be mixing up "investigate cause" and "correct issue". Nexus updated their site, if it's now broken for users (at least two in this thread have noted it doesn't filter to the game even though it appears it should), then Nexus could investigate to distinguish between user level cause, the browser extensions or settings like you say, or the site being the cause. If it turns out it's the browser/user then yeah, that's on the user to resolve (though good customer service would point them in the right direction). If it's the site itself, then Nexus have something to resolve. If Nexus don't at least look at the issue, then they wont know if they have something to fix on their end, will they. And that would be in their best interest, even if it does turn out to be a browser extension lets say it's a popular one, it would benefit Nexus to at least know that so they could list it as a known incompatibility. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showler Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Sure. But that requires the user to accept that what they are seeing is not correct (instead of assuming it's some bizarre choice that Nexus Mods made and won't fix) and then communicating with the staff at Nexus Mods (in the Site Support forum is probably best) so that the cause can be determined and a solution found. If you just say "not my job" then what do you expect them to do? Come to your house and start checking to see what browser you are using and what extensions you have installed and whether or not you installed any of the site modification scripts that have been posted in this thread? Finding the problem is collaborative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JobiWanUK Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 On 4/3/2025 at 10:59 PM, showler said: Depends. First thing that needs to be worked out is whether it's broken because of something on their end or something on your end. If the page is broken because of an extension you have installed then they can't actually investigate it for you. Expand I don't have any extensions installed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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